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Creative destruction /

A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that globalization is subverting local culture. But is it helping as much as it hurts? In this st...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cowen, Tyler
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2002.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Trade between cultures
  • Global culture ascendant: the roles of wealth and technology
  • Ethos and the tragedy of cultural loss
  • Why Hollywood rules the world, and whether we should care
  • Dumbing down and the least common denominator
  • Should national culture matter?